More Residents Consider State Not So Golden [California]

Mercury News ^ | 8/5/03 | Katherine Corcoran

[TastyManatees]

CENSUS LOGS CALIFORNIA'S FIRST MIGRATION LOSS TO OTHER PARTS OF U.S.

It's not Hollywood movies or wine. It's not even the cheese. California's most notable export is people, according to new census reports released today, confirming that even in the boom time of the late 1990s, more people left California than arrived from other states.

[TastyManatees]

There are a lot of Arizonans who are unhappy with the exodus from California caused by Gray Davis and his ilk. I'm not talking about ex-Californians, either.

Tasty Manatees

[capt. norm]

Looks like California has liberalized itself to a slow death.

[Gritty]

California lost nearly 760,000 people to other states from 1995 to 2000,... as high housing costs and job opportunities continue to drive Californians to mostly neighboring western states, demographers say.

Hmmmm. That's a lot of productive people to lose, not to mention a large tax base.

Despite the decline, California still grew by 4.1 million people in the 1990s because of birth rates and immigration largely from Latin America and the Pacific Rim.

So, close to 5 million immigrants poured in, probably most of them illegals.

This has got to spell "big trouble"! But, the same influx of illegals is happening everywhere. Why don't we just annex Mexico before it annexes us?

[VU4G10]

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[DB]

Spend, spend, spend, Tax, tax, tax...

State government better darn well wakeup soon.

Worker's comp in California is a disaster too.

They made it a worker’s paradise no one can afford…

And then jobs go away…

[DB]

I hope he has a chance...

[Ayn Rand wannabe]

California lost nearly 760,000 people to other states from 1995 to 2000,... as high housing costs and job opportunities continue to drive Californians to mostly neighboring western states, demographers say.

Or maybe they just didn't like living in a socialist's paradise...

[Consort]

Migration? Is that the new term being used to describe Right Flight and White Flight and Anglo Flight, etc? And so many here complain about why problems get worse or never get fixed. Pretty soon there will be no place left to "migrate" to. We are giving the country away; we are part of the problem. Consequently, we are becoming underrepresented in more and more segments of our society and in local, state, and federal governments.

[StatesEnemy]

Why don't we just annex Mexico before it annexes us?

Why don't we just wall off 'Mexifornia' and leave it for the "Hollywood Liberal Types" to [mis]manage.

[Gunslingr3]

How long till they put up a wall and start shooting the people who'd rather leave than 'share'?

[Uncle Hal]

Notice how they tip toe around the ethnic mix of the 2 groups. Guaranteed, the racial make up of the people leaving the state was 90% plus white, while the racial make up of those coming into the state was close to 90% non white. Also the income levels of the people leaving is much higher than those arriving. CA. is rapidly becomg a 3rd world country. I am retired and we are thinking of moving out. My mother in law is in her 80's and when she goes we may leave.

[ScottinSacto]

My mother in law is in her 80's and when she goes we may leave.

Be merciful and take her with you, so she can enjoy her sunset years in peace!

Those of us trapped will be insanely jealous until our own retirement and exodus.

[Diddle E. Squat]

Ya'll seemed to have overlooked this pertinent fact in the article:

Latinos account for the largest exodus bloc from California, followed closely by whites

Not that facts would ever get in the way of Tancredo-esque rants...

[Consort]

My migration/flight assertion still holds.